Fedora Core 5 : kernel-2.6.20-1.2316.fc5 (2007-483)

high Nessus Plugin ID 25128

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Linux kernel 2.6.20.7 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.20.7 Previous kernel had most of this update already applied.

Linux kernel 2.6.20.8 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.20.8 Fixes CVE-2007-1861

Linux kernel 2.6.20.9 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.20.9 Fixes CVE-2007-2242

Linux kernel 2.6.20.10 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.20.10 Fixes two bugs introduced by the two previous updates.

CVE-2007-1861: The netlink protocol has an infinite recursion bug that allows users to cause a kernel crash.

CVE-2007-2242: The IPv6 protocol allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted IPv6 type 0 route headers (IPV6_RTHDR_TYPE_0) that create network amplification between two routers.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25128

File Name: fedora_2007-483.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 5/2/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-doc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen0, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen0-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xenu, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xenu-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp-debug, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-483

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